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PARLIAMENTARY SCHEMES—SESSION 1885
METROPOLITAN, NOTTING HILL AND SHEPHERDS HUSH
RAILWAY.
This was the only plan deposited at your Office for
this Session. The Railway proposed to commence at a
junction with the District Railway at Notting Hill Gate,
and proceed underground down Notting Hill, underneath
the West London Railway at Uxbridge Road, thence by
cutting in a South Westerly direction to join the London
and South Western Railway at Shepherd's Bush Road.
The Bill, however, was subsequently abandoned.
UNITED TELEPHONE COMPANY'S BILL.
A Bill having been introduced for the purpose of
giving certain powers to the United Telephone Company.
A petition was prepared and presented (with others) to
the House of Lords as follows:—
UNITED TELEPHONE COMPANY (iL L.).
Petition Against: on Merits. By Counsel.
To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in
Parliament assembled.
The humble Petition of the Board of Works for
the Fulham District, in the County of Middlesex,
under their Common Seal.
SlIEWETH,—(1). That an Act has been introduced into and is
now pending in your Right Honourable House, entitled "an Act
to afford the United Telephone Company (Limited) additional
facilities for Telephonic Communication, and for other purposes,
which Act is hereinafter called 'the Act.'"
(2.) That the preamble of the Act states (inter alia) that the
United Telephone Company, Limited, (therein and hereinafter
called the Company) is a Company incorporated under the
Companies' Acts, 1862 to 1880, and by an indenture dated the
eleventh day of April, 1S81, between Her Majesty's PostmasterGeneral
and the Company, certain agreements were made as to
establishing Telephonic Exchanges within a radius of five miles
from a central point in London, and to establish, work, manage,
use and maintain such Exchanges.
That the Company have established certain Exchanges. That
the Postmaster-General has on several occasions for special